Author: Immanuel Joseph
Immanuel Joseph (Male; Born - 11.08.1979, Madurai)
What am I doing??
Actually, nothing much!
But I am a self-employed, part-time, freelance spiritual worker.
What that means exactly, I myself don't know......
I don't have a job. But I have vocation......
Christian, medical background.
Lay, maverick, eccentric thinker & spiritual friend (Insightful Facilitator) - passionately seeking to better experience, understand & enjoy life!
Reclusive & contemplative autodidact.
Controversial conversationalist.
Life-partner - Salome Divya. Living in Hulimavu, (Bengaluru, India).
Email
jimmanueljoseph@gmail.com
Cell Phone/WhatsApp
+919840227977
“As I Lay Dying” movie review (Hit – 3.5/5)
“My father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.”
Transformation/liberation/enlightenment – seeing life in the light of death and seeing death in the light of life – neither is permanent – only change is!
Family, sex & loss – compare with the TV series “Six Feet Under” (especially Pilot)
Religion, reason & morality wither away before the searing heat of passion/death!
Only desire, instinct & insanity remain……
This guy CAN direct too! I loved the poetry and the split scenes (reminded me of “Hulk”!)
Does the Christian metal band (one of my favorites) have anything to do with the novel?
Yatagarasu
Mythological three-legged crow (courage, wisdom & compassion)
“The You in you, that you never knew!”
READINGS
READINGS
READINGS
The Hindu Theater Festival 2016
SKETCHES: ROSY
BROWSING
16.8.16
– Distinguish:
Specialty
&
Speciality
– Fulfillment > achievement
– Wisdom:
Insight
Vs.
Skill
– Christian ~ traditional ~ orthodox ~ conservative
– To live, is to believe, to learn, to be present, to love & to work…
– Distinguish:
Danger
&
Suffering
– The medicalization of death
The romanticization of poverty
The spiritualization of tragedy
– Change – events & processes
Birth >> growth >> decay >> death >> ……
– Distinguish:
Reproduction
&
Generativity
– Identity:
Reverence –> integrity
– Seánce parlor
Hospital resuscitation
– Praise ~ exalt ~ magnify
– Annunciation, visitation & assumption
– Faith – I believe in the GOD who has made the promise, so I will yield with expectation……!
“Let it be unto me, according to your word.”
The courage to remain, rejoice & serve
17.8.16
– Courage, sacrifice & violence
Jn. 15:13 + Mat. 26:52
Nobility & justice
– Patience & thoughtfulness
– The momentous momentary & the momentary momentous
Fuck the momentum (inertia)!
18.8.16
– Who are the Parsis?
Are they related to Jains?
– Critical realism
– cockles
– repechage
– CBMs – Confidence Building Measures
– ad hocism
– Personal
&
Personnel
– Balochistan
– putsch
– lockstep
19.8.16
– It is the ones who “love to sit at the feet of the LORD” who find it most difficult to let go of the LORD! The ultimate challenge (& failure) for the devotee is the Cross (like Peter’s rebuke of Jesus & the disciples’ total abandonment of Jesus during his passion) – the self-annihilation of the Messiah. GOD himself is the greatest idol & addictive drug in the history of the world. That is why Christianity is NOT a religion, just like many other faith traditions! The final greatest act of worship is the iconoclastic act – the renunciation of any absolute image of GOD (Scripture, theology, mystical experience, miraculous events, charismatic gifts, etc.) & the placing of one’s trust & desire in the absolutely unknowable ONE.
This is why the progressive revelation of GOD is first as Law (OT), then as person (Jesus) & finally as Spirit (NT)!
Spirit > person > law
But are Christians today ready for the final stage??
I think most Christians are in the first stage still, glorying in their confidence & attacking those who lack their simplicity & clarity!
Even Karl Barth says that the one true GOD of the Gospel cannot be reduced to the object of evangelical theology, since he/she/it is a living subject!
The more we know, the more we know we don’t know.
The less we know, the more we think we know!
– “Cultivating disconcertment”
20.8.16
– Leviathan – Job, Thomas Hobbes and Andrey Zvyagintsev
– gurney
22.8.16
– Special needs
– geoglyph
– repartee
adroit
– bandana
– Lucid dreaming
– Lament as wisdom
– Is there a difference between privacy and secrecy?
– Feeling the tension between my emphasis on individual freedom and the consideration of my social context
– Mourn ~ moan
– A loud homiletics without a critical hermeneutic
– Personal(ized) canons
– Narcissistic obedience
– Distinguish:
Coercion
&
Submission
– GOD-talk that is NOT self-delusion
– Eeyore
– Puzzlement need not always be associated with sadness
– The audacious insanity of prayer!
– The canonizing community
– Lament
Vs.
Cynicism
– Obedience as wisdom and criticism as faithfulness
23.8.16
– Balance:
Gaining control over my life (proactive)
&
Taking things as they come (responsive)
Distinguish:
Reactive
&
Responsive
– Develop, transform & create!
– When you’re relaxing, try walking back & forth, instead of sitting or lying down.
– Moving from answer/solve to respond/address
– Truthful > faithful > loyal
– integral
– Remote intimacy
– Not all contradictions are nonsense!
– detente
– Screws & nuts
– plaintive
– tortuous
– Social media, gaming & pornography
– I don’t know what is lacking/wrong in my lifestyle.
Why do I feel sad or restless so often??
How can I do something about this, if I don’t have a clue about what’s going on inside/underneath it?
– Beatitudes – notice both the present & future tense of the blessing. It is definitely a guaranteed destiny (eschatological state) & a deeper spiritual reality, that is being spoken of here!
– GOD ~ Heaven ~ Kingdom
– “Poor in spirit” – pious & needy
– Detaching my consciousness/will/awareness from (being identified with, & therefore determined by) my feelings, thoughts & circumstances
Self-transcendence!
How does this relate to self-realization?
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